Kartik Aaryan Quotes

I wanted to be a lawyer. Then a journalist. Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

The thing about 'Soft Machine' and me was that I never considered another profession.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

I ended up being a businessman unwittingly. I wanted to be an academic; I wanted to be like Einstein.

I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back to school.

The first thing I wanted to be growing up was a solicitor, because all the people around me needed solicitors! But I never really followed it up. Then I wanted to be a dessert chef because I liked the presentation.

I didn't think I was going to school to be a doctor - no offense, but that wasn't me.

My mum wanted me to be a doctor like my dad, and at 7, I really wanted to be a politician, and I managed in my mind to combine the two.

I don't think I would have made for a good doctor. It was not meant to be, and it took me a long time to realize that.

I don't really know if I want to do acting as a career. I really don't know what I want to do yet.

I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.

My parents wanted me to be a doctor. So I took up science, but then realised that my heart was not in it at all. The thought of treating ailing people was very depressing.

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.

If I could really move my career much more into predominantly directing, I would jump at that.

He didn't want me to become a musician, he wanted me to be a doctor, because he said singing was too hard.

Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

I don't know what I want to be when I grow up. It's funny - people ask me that, and I don't know what to tell them.

Truth be told, I didn't want to be on T.V. I was going to be a writer or producer or a director, and at the end of my sophomore year, my department chairman put me up for a job doing weekend weather in Syracuse, New York.

At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult life trying to be a director. It was really clear to me. So in that sense I was very lucky.

I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.

I am not surprised that they show no intention to follow in my footsteps, although if I had a second chance myself, I would certainly try to repeat my present career.

I know from experience that careers do not always arise from a deep sense of destiny.